Standing on top of the rocky cliff beside Niagara Falls, Professor Douglas Larson can see trees far below and the distant outline of the Toronto skyline. He makes sure his climbing harness is securely fastened, then lowers himself down the cliff face. He picks his footing carefully as he works his way toward a small cedar tree. The tree is only a few feet tall, and its bare branches prove that it has been dead a long time. Small stones crumble from beneath the botanist’s feet during his descent. As he edges around a jutting boulder, he keeps a wary watch for bobcats and snakes.
Then the tree is within reach. Bracing his feet against the cliff wall, Larson pulls out a small collapsible saw. He slices a round disk, called a cookie, from the trunk. He slips the saw and cookie into his pack and climbs back to safety.
It’s all in a day’s work when you’re studying the cedars of the cliffs.
When cedars live on flat sod they grow fifty feet in ninety years—a normal growth rate for a cedar. But when they sprout on the rocky cliffs, they become the slowest-growing trees in the world. When Professor Douglas Larson cut the first slice off the trunk of a dead tree and took it to his laboratory to study, he discovered these cedars are like no other trees in the world. They grow more slowly and have a root system that is completely unique.
Sometimes God hides amazing mysteries in the most ordinary places. Who knows what wondrous things are still waiting to be discovered, even in your own backyard? Jane Chase
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Tomado de: Daily Devotions for Junior 2020
“Eyes of the Crocodile”
From: Charles Mills
Colaboradores: Javier Gadea & Alessandra Maya
